Frasi di Alfred Austin

„Le lacrime sono gli acquazzoni estivi sull'anima.“

—  Alfred Austin

da Savonarola – Macmillan, Londra, 1881

„L'opinione pubblica non è che questo: ciò che la gente pensa che gli altri pensino.“

—  Alfred Austin

da Prince Lucifer – Macmillan, New York, Londra, 1887

„Vale la pena vivere la vita? Sì, finché la primavera fa rivivere l'anno, e ci saluta con il canto del cuculo, per mostrare che lei è qui;“

—  Alfred Austin

„So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.“

—  Alfred Austin

Poetry Quotes, Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

„He is dead already who doth not feel
Life is worth living still.“

—  Alfred Austin

Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

„Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here;“

—  Alfred Austin

Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)

„Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.“

—  Alfred Austin

The Garden that I Love (1905)
The Garden that I Love (1905)

„O'er the wires the electric message came,
"He is no better; he is much the same."“

—  Alfred Austin

On the Illness of the Prince of Wales (1910)

An 1871 poem on the illness of the Prince of Wales, although there is some doubt that Austin actually wrote this part. That classic compendium "The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse" (2d ed. 1930; Capricorn paperback 1962) includes a dozen quotations from Austin but attributes this particular couplet (p. 17) to a "university poet unknown." It also provides a metrically more accurate first line, "Across the wires the gloomy message came," plus "not" for "no" in the second line.
On the Illness of the Prince of Wales (1910)

„No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.“

—  Alfred Austin

Prose Papers on Poetry (1910)

„Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.“

—  Alfred Austin

Prose Papers on Poetry Macmillan & Co 1910.
Prose Papers on Poetry (1910)

„The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.“

—  Alfred Austin

As quoted in Growing with the Seasons (2008) by Frank & Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115.

„Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As there is wrong to right,
Wail of the weak against the strong,
Or tyranny to fight;“

—  Alfred Austin

Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)